"A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing."

-- Lois Wyse

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“Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.”
“Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.”
“I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.”
“Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!...”
“Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.”
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.”

Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.5, University of Michigan Press
“My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.”

Source : "Susan Ford Bales: Ford's Daughter Enjoys Tulsa Time". Interview with Robby Trammell, newsok.com. November 13, 1989.
“Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.”

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